There are 3 ways of making meaning. By market share: Superego methods: 90% (religion, Straussianism, Science! genocides, etc) Ego methods: 9% (rationality, ethics, manifestos, etc. It doesn’t work at all but it doesn’t stop people from trying) Id methods: 1%. Aka gonzoing.
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Most people don’t move fast enough, or irreversibly enough to experience gonzo meaning between long periods of superego-supervised treading water. Brief adult moments of id-in-charge driving feel like out-of-control, dangerous, exhilarating rides. Which they can be (aka hedonism)
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The trick is to survive long enough into adulthood that the hedonistic core of id-in-charge quietens enough that it can be sidelined by a mature gonzo life stream
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Hedonism is like the conventional explosive that implodes the radioactive core of a nuclear bomb to create the nuclear explosion,which is the gonzo phase proper
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